NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1. The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image: NASA/Emmett Given

To learn more about NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/aes/index.html

For more information about Secondary Payloads, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology

For more information about NEA Scout, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout

SLS at LC-39B for WDR

An insight into NASA's Chris A. Hadfield Rocket Factory (CAHRF), featuring various manufacturing areas for NASA's Rockets

steel rings

North VAB steelwork

SLS at LC-39B for WDR

The Chris A. Hadfield Rocket Factory floors are polished to a shine constantly to maintain cleanliness while NASA manufactures Space Launch System Orion Spacecraft

A NASA engineer poses for an ovservation view of NASA's SLS liquid oxygen tank being hoisted in the South VAB of the NASA Chris A. Hadfield Rocket Factory.

You can see the floors are polished to a reflective shine!

NASA manufacturing workshop

model room

welded panels of SLS in the Chris Hadfield Rocket Factory

NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1. The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image: NASA/Emmett Given

To learn more about NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/aes/index.html

For more information about Secondary Payloads, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology

For more information about NEA Scout, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout

SLS at LC-39B for WDR

Today was the #StateOfNASA event at NASA centers across America. I was fortunate to get to attend the #NASASocial that covered the presentation and then touring the facility. Great things are going on at Stennis and their future looks bright.

Orion Spacecraft fabrication in Chris Hadfield Rocket Factory, that will launch on Exploration-Mission 2

SLS at LC-39B for WDR

NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1. The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image: NASA/Emmett Given

To learn more about NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/aes/index.html

For more information about Secondary Payloads, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology

For more information about NEA Scout, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout

SLS at LC-39B for WDR

An Overhead crane hoists the Orion spacecraft to another manufacturing area of the NASA Chris Hadfield Rocket Factory

NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1. The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image: NASA/Emmett Given

To learn more about NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/aes/index.html

For more information about Secondary Payloads, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology

For more information about NEA Scout, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout

SLS at LC-39B for WDR

I wasn't expecting to see a model of the SLS, but I thought this was terrific to see!

NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1. The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image: NASA/Emmett Given

To learn more about NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/aes/index.html

For more information about Secondary Payloads, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology

For more information about NEA Scout, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout

Bruce Tiller, Deputy Manager of the SLS Booster, at the Booster Fabrication Facility.

NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1. The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image: NASA/Emmett Given

To learn more about NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/aes/index.html

For more information about Secondary Payloads, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology

For more information about NEA Scout, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout

Today was the #StateOfNASA event at NASA centers across America. I was fortunate to get to attend the #NASASocial that covered the presentation and then touring the facility. Great things are going on at Stennis and their future looks bright.

An insight into NASA's Chris A. Hadfield Rocket Factory (CAHRF), featuring various manufacturing areas for NASA's Rockets

After completing its journey from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans aboard the Pegasus barge, teams with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) transport the agency’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) core stage to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Once inside, SLS will be prepared for integration atop the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis II launch. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

NASA image use policy.

NASA’s massive 212-foot long SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is offloaded from the agency’s Pegasus Barge on Wednesday, July 24 2024, after arriving at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Teams with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) will transfer the rocket stage to the spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building to prepare it for integration atop the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis II launch. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

NASA image use policy.

Dawn of April 4, second attempt at Wet Dress Rehearsal

After completing its journey from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans aboard the Pegasus barge, teams with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) transport the agency’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) core stage to Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Once inside, SLS will be prepared for integration atop the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis II launch. Photo credit: NASA/Isaac Watson

NASA image use policy.

NASA’s massive 212-foot long SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is offloaded from the agency’s Pegasus Barge on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, after arriving at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Teams with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) will transfer the rocket stage to the spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building to prepare it for integration atop the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis II launch. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

NASA image use policy.

NASA’s massive 212-foot long SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is offloaded from the agency’s Pegasus Barge on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, after arriving at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Teams with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) will transfer the rocket stage to the spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building to prepare it for integration atop the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis II launch. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

NASA image use policy.

The sun rises over NASA’s Pegasus barge, carrying the agency’s massive SLS (Space Launch System) core stage, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Complex 39 turn basin wharf in Florida on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, after journeying from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The core stage is the next piece of Artemis hardware to arrive at the spaceport and will be offloaded and moved to NASA Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be prepared for integration ahead of the Artemis II launch. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

NASA image use policy.

Scissor lift, with two workers inspecting the foam of the Liquid Oxygen tank for the Space Launch System at NASA's Chris A. Hadfield Rocket Factory.

NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1. The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image: NASA/Emmett Given

To learn more about NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/aes/index.html

For more information about Secondary Payloads, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology

For more information about NEA Scout, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout

The Saturn V first stages, S-1C-10, S-1C-11, and S-1C-9, are in the horizontal assembly area for the engine (five F-1 engines) installation at Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

NASA’s new Vertical Assembly Center (VAC), a 170-foot-high marvel of machinery that will be ...

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Today was the fly-around-Washington event: the last 'flight' of the Space Shuttle Discovery on the back of a special Boeing 747. It is to be set up, in the vertical position, at one of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institute. *

The other space craft is shown here because the engines of the Discovery will be used in it. It is the future Space Launch System, being designed by NASA for manned flight.

Discovery is the oldest shuttle, from 1984, and traveled the most: equal to the the distance from the sun to the orbit of Mars.

Discovery at work:

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This configuration of the shuttle and the 747 is not a new thing. When- due to weather- the shuttles landed in California, at Edwards, they were always flown back, in this way, to the Space Center in Florida.

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* - the Smithsonian Institute annex in northern Virginia. But that's just across the Potomac from Washington.

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- the fly-around image is made up.

the NASA Chris A. Hadfield Rocket Factory employes a wide diverse of workers! These guys are checking tention in crane cables